On the historical significance of the Millstatters in the context of the Viennese and Vorau collective manuscripts of early Middle High German poetry.

The Millstatt collective manuscript, named after its former location, Codex GV 6/19 of the Kärntner State Archives in Klagenfurt, is, along with Codex 2721 of the Vienna National Library and manuscript 276 of Vorau Abbey, the youngest of the three large and important collective manuscripts of Middle High German poetry. According to current dating, they were recorded in the period from the last quarter of the twelfth century to the beginning of the thirteenth and contain a large part, namely around two thirds of the poetry of the literary-historical epoch of the so-called early Middle High German literature, which ended around this time. ... I want to attempt here to focus on this triad from the Millstatt manuscript. ... What appears to be the simplest case at first glance, but in reality is quite complex, is the Viennese manuscript. It contains three originally independent texts by different authors: the Old German Genesis in verse, the so-called 'Younger Physiologus' in prose and an incomplete version of the 'Old German Exodus' again in verse. ... Genesis and Physiologus were apparently brought together at a first level of collecting that preceded the Vienna manuscript. - [Author]

Language: German